Educating Providers About Lung Screening

Georgetown University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lung Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: LuCa + Health Disparity module

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT05064046

STUDY00003967

3R01CA207228-05S1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

We are conducting a randomized trial to compare the Health Disparities module to an existing provider module on lung cancer screening to evaluate the impact on primary care providers' knowledge, attitudes, and lung cancer screening referrals of African American and White patients.

Full description

We are conducting a randomized trial of two online, provider-facing education modules regarding lung cancer screening and smoking cessation. We will accrue 70 MedStar primary care providers (PCP). The baseline survey will incorporate items regarding lung cancer screening knowledge, providers' attitudes towards lung cancer screening, lung cancer screening ordering practices and provider characteristics. At the end of the baseline survey, PCPs will be randomly assigned to the LuCa + Health Disparities or LuCa only. PCPs will be asked to complete the intervention and the post-test within 1 week of randomization. The post test will cover knowledge of lung cancer screening, attitudes and opinions toward LCS. To assess PCP lung cancer screening ordering practices, we will review the MedConnect Electronic Health Record (EHR) to compare the two study groups post-randomization on the number of orders made for LCS.

Enrollment: 77 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• MedStar provider (attending or resident physician, physician's assistant, or nurse practitioner)
• English speaking
• ability to provide meaningful consent
• ability to provide last two digits of NPI.

Exclusion criteria

• N/A

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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77 participants in 2 patient groups

LuCa + Health Disparity module

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be asked to complete the Health Disparities module that is an interactive CME/CE online course which offers 0.5 continuing education credit hours. The will also be asked to complete the LuCa course.

Treatment:

Behavioral: LuCa + Health Disparity module

LuCa only module

Active Comparator group

Description:

LuCa is a free interactive CME/CE online course entitled, "Lung Cancer and the Primary Care Provider". For the purpose of this study, participants will be asked to complete session 1 which offers 1.0 continuing education credit hours, including AMA PRA Category 1 credits, AANP, and AAFP Prescribed credits.

Treatment:

Behavioral: LuCa + Health Disparity module